ORANGS: Bill Clinton is doing fine and will be released soon from a Southern California hospital where he’s being treated for an infection, President Joe Biden said.
Biden said Friday during remarks at the University of Connecticut that he had spoken to Clinton and the former president “sends his best.” “He’s doing fine; he really is,” Biden said. “He’s not in any serious condition,” Biden said.
“He is getting out shortly, as I understand it. Whether that’s tomorrow or the next day, I don’t know.” Clinton, 75, was admitted to the University of California Irvine Medical Center, southeast of Los Angeles, on Tuesday with an infection unrelated to COVID-19, his spokesman said.
An aide to the former president said Clinton had a urological infection that spread to his bloodstream, but he is on the mend and never went into septic shock, a potentially life-threatening condition.
Clinton spokesman Angel Urena said Friday that Clinton would remain hospitalised overnight to receive further intravenous antibiotics.
“All health indicators are trending in the right direction, including his white blood count which has decreased significantly,” Urena said in a statement.
“President Clinton continues to be in excellent spirits, and is deeply grateful for the outstanding care he is receiving and the well wishes that people have sent from across America and around the world,” the statement said.
The aide, who spoke to reporters at the hospital on the condition his name wasn’t used, said Clinton was in an intensive care section of the hospital but wasn’t receiving ICU care.
Clinton was reading books and watching TV coverage about his hospitalisation, the aide said. Hillary Clinton was with him in the hospital, though not his daughter, Chelsea Clinton. —PTI

Press Trust of India